IT'S CHAI TIME
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December 2019 -
A gang known as the Castro Enterprise, that targeted Indian-American and other Asian families across the USA for their gold jewelry, was caught in 2014, and the leader has now been sentenced.
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December 2019 -
At the Suwanee, GA, opening of a Patel Brothers grocery store, Swetal Patel, VP of the national chain, was hit with a cane by an old man in a hurry. At another opening near Chicago--more frenzy.
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November 2019 -
Flyweight boxer Amit Panghal became the first Indian to reach the final of a World Boxing Championships event. He took silver at the 2019 AIBA event, and Manish Kaushik took bronze.
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November 2019 -
The Sacramento Kings and Indiana Pacers played two preseason games in Mumbai in October, the first NBA exhibition games in India. Kings owner Vivek Ranadivé led the venture to bring the NBA to India.
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November 2019 -
From 4am to 9:30am, outside a railway station, Ashwini Shenoy Shah and her husband, both MBA graduates, help their maid by selling the food she has cooked, before going to their regular jobs.
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November 2019 -
Quotes about the slain sheriff’s deputy Sandeep Dhaliwal, about moving but still facing discrimination, from Trump, a male dancer, and the engineer stuck in India with his family on visa issues.
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November 2019 -
How much do you know about current events in India and the U.S.? Try this short quiz!
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November 2019 -
Envy can be motivating, but we can't always equal our friends in some areas. Let's be grateful for what we have and happy for our friends' success--in case we ever need to borrow from them.
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November 2019 -
Japan Airlines has a seat map to show where infants are sitting, so that passengers can reserve seats far from crying babies--but future sharing of info about passengers might get complicated.
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November 2019 -
Not many people know that Aaron Burr fathered two children with a woman from Calcutta, India, who had come to America through the Caribbean and worked for his family as a maid.
